This video was EXACTLY what I was after.... Building a ground mount solar rack... Great information and straight to the meat! Thank you! Bob in Arizona 🤠👍
Thank you for this excellent instructional video on Unistrut materials. I had never heard of them. This opens so many doors for possible projects I’ve wanted to tackle but I was held back by lack of welding knowledge.
Excellent video. I've been building and making stuff since a kid. I can't believe this stuff was never on my radar. Have seen it used on electrical configurations had no idea how cool the stuff is. Thanks.
Thank you for this video. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to connect two pieces of unistrut in a perpendicular position. Like serval folks, I'm a DYI'er trying to mount solar panels to unistrut without welding. Thanks again brother! Ed from Alaska.
Thank you this video was exactly what I needed I am currently reinfocing a rack and creating a custom fab and using unistrut as part of the reinforcement
Great video! It's the only useful one that I could find that actually demonstrated different methods to attach/connect the pieces in different ways. Very helpful!
Been using Unistrut since 1984, we call the sprung back nut a zebedee named after the character from Magic Roundabout. We also used to use a lot of Speedframe to do lighter jobs.
I definitely have a good setup for portable off grid use I am trying to build the array so I can slide panels underneath the others or make a awning like pole and unistrut construction that I can put the panels level for transport and tild them back again when I get parked.
Really good stuff to use. i have been using it for about 25 years. we use chop saw type machines with metal discs to cut it when doing quantity. just in case it wasn't in your vid because i didn't see it all, you can also use it with threaded bar. we bolt the unistrutt to the wall and screw in the threaded bar. this enables us to fit ducting etc as well as mentioned above, cable trays. it's uses are endless. good vid Chez.
As a guy from Burnley ,unistrut is used very extensively over here in Canada and the USA by electricians ,heating and ventilation contractors and many other trades
This looks like a great idea for making a platform bed in a camper van, where you want to make the bed platform higher to turn the unused space below into a garage to haul whatever you want...
Seems like they would be better off, or at least the customer would be to buy in longer lengths and cut to suit. We see these around here a lot when someone has to mount a heater, cooler, fan, etc to the ceiling in a store or business.
Thanks for the great demo! This was the exact information I was looking for after searching vids for over a week. Liked and subscribed! Would you happen to know the best way to paint the unistrut under the rolled lip? I’m planning to use unistrut to make a roof rack for solar panels for my van.
Cool video! ... I've seen these all over the place ... is there any website that really explains or goes into depth on how to use these, and maybe examples like your great video here of what other people have done with them? On that linkage you made to join the two stuts ... how resistant to torque, shear or bending is that? That does not seem like it would be too strong?
Yet another brilliant video from 'the ultimatehandyman'. I can think of so many uses for this product, not sure (yet) where I can purchase it. I would like to make some shelves with them. Silly question I 'm sure, but how do you drill into a concrete post that has the wire inside it? Thank you
Thanks Albert. I buy my unistrut from an ironmongers in the next town as they are also a steel stockist, you can even buy it on ebay although postage is expensive. Drilling the reinforced concrete posts is not easy. If you can try and avoid the reinforcing bars. If you can't do that Bosch make some rebar cutter bits for SDS machines but they are expensive. You might also be able to use HSS drill bits once you hit the rebar, then swap back to the masonry bit.
***** Thanks for the quick reply, I confess, I had come to the same conclusion with regards to reinforcing bars, don't know how you can avoid them though; is it pot luck or can you anticipate that the bars are in the centre of the strut? Can't wait to experiment with the unistruts! Just wish I knew where to get some in or near Oldham. Brilliant videos well done.
Albert Ross Thanks Albert, It's just pot luck when drilling anything with rebar in it. You should be able to get unistrut from electrical wholesalers, Newey & Eyre should stock it, they have a branch in Oldham. Thanks for the comment
Take a look here, at the 90 degree Tee brackets or the other T brackets, as some of these might work- directchannel.uk.com/brackets-clamps/angle-brackets Thanks for the comment 👍
Great vid! Do you think these are strong enough to use as posts to hang a wooden fence? Idea would be to use 2 of them (maybe the welded back to back ones) them instead of regular wooden posts (which rot) and cement them 6 or 8 ft apart. Then hang 1x6 or 1x4 PT lumber off them.
The back to back stuff will be strong enough, but eventually it will probably start to rust- unless it is painted as well. The back to back Unistrut is really strong ;-) Thanks for the comment
I want to build a solar panel array with unistrut for a portable system on a flatbed trailer. I built a custom wind turbine tower from a lift hoist. But my solar panels are 65 inches long 39 inches wide and 1 1/2 inch thick. I have 4 of them. I need to make 65 inch sliders so I can pull these out from under the top panels Do you recomend howto use unistrut to make custom sliding drawer rails that's telescoping so I can pull these out and have support for them or even hinging single ones to unistrut and folding them out?
Unistrut is often used for electrical installations/solar panels etc. I guess it all depends on the weight of the panels. You can buy slide mechanisms for Unistrut, but I'm not sure if they would be suitable for your application. Thanks for the comment
@@ultimatehandyman ok here is the unit . I want to replace the wood with unistrut and want to put the 4 large panels on the trailer and the 6 small ones would definitely benefit being able to be mounted underneath the larger panels and pull out like drawers. The prototype wind turbine tower or scorpion tower will be moved onto the tongue with half inch steel angle supports welded to the frame on trailer and tongue and 3/16 steel plates already drilled for 5/8 bolts for flange. I want 2 large panels behind electronics box long ways next to each other mounted in pairs on unistrut and a 1/1/4 OD aluminum pole.using a ubolt then legs mounded with telescoping poles and hinged flanges for support. So they can lower the front of each array down and vertical for the tower to lower in between the 2 arrays for transport the raise the tower and angle the front array and back array to the correct sun angle. That's the plan ruclips.net/video/hK4rzGDsLAA/видео.html the wood is to bulky and heavy. I'm open to ideas send any my way thanks.
@@ultimatehandyman cool I am totally new to using unistrut so I'm not familiar with the parts needed what would you recommend using for strength? And for sliding applications? Do u think it would be more cost effective to use heavy duty 22 inch 100 pound drawer slides side mount or under mounts? And a pipe clamp or ubolt to attach unistrut to any pipe conduit?
Awesome stuff! Thank you! I was planning on building a frame for a forced air floating boat lift to keep my Pontoon up out of the water. Would you say this is strong enough to use? The original option was to weld a box tube frame.. but this seem way easier!
+AISLE3B They enable you to tighten things up against the unistrut.Sometimes you need the square washers, other times you don't. It depends what you are bolting to it.Thanks for the comment ;-)
Square washers are sometimes called square plates, for instance, you would put a short length of threaded stud through the washer and into a the large square shaped nut with a spring as shown in the video, this nut is called a zebedee, then put a normal nut on the other side of the square washer and tighten it up against the unistrut, then for instance, put a pipe clip on the exposed piece of threaded stud, which would hold copper or iron pipes or anything else that needed support. The washer is square, so that it sits on the unistrut correctly.
The M10 channel nuts are quite substantial, I'm not sure how much weight you could hang from them- I guess you would have to check with Unistrut to be on the safe side. Thanks for the comments
Searched through dozens of RUclipss looking for how to use unistrut on my Alloy Ute tray. Thank you thank you.
I’m glad you found the video useful
Thanks for the comment 👍
This video was EXACTLY what I was after....
Building a ground mount solar rack...
Great information and straight to the meat!
Thank you!
Bob in Arizona 🤠👍
I didn't realise how dear this stuff was, the amount of uni off-cuts, nuts, square washers & connectors we throw away is unbelievable!
Wish I had knowledge where to find some like that.
Thank you for this excellent instructional video on Unistrut materials. I had never heard of them. This opens so many doors for possible projects I’ve wanted to tackle but I was held back by lack of welding knowledge.
You are welcome
Thanks for the comment
Excellent video. I've been building and making stuff since a kid. I can't believe this stuff was never on my radar. Have seen it used on electrical configurations had no idea how cool the stuff is. Thanks.
Great to hear! 👍
Thank you for this video. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to connect two pieces of unistrut in a perpendicular position. Like serval folks, I'm a DYI'er trying to mount solar panels to unistrut without welding. Thanks again brother! Ed from Alaska.
I'm glad the video helped
Thanks for the comment 👍
This video just answered SO many questions. Thanks!
You are welcome
Thanks for the comment
Thank you this video was exactly what I needed I am currently reinfocing a rack and creating a custom fab and using unistrut as part of the reinforcement
I’m glad you found the video useful
Thanks for the comment 👍
Great video! It's the only useful one that I could find that actually demonstrated different methods to attach/connect the pieces in different ways. Very helpful!
I'm glad the video helped ;-)
Thanks for the comment 👍
I find this video very useful today in 2020 as it did six years ago when it was posted! Thank you for the very well explanations. Cheers.
Glad it was helpful!
Been using Unistrut since 1984, we call the sprung back nut a zebedee named after the character from Magic Roundabout. We also used to use a lot of Speedframe to do lighter jobs.
I definitely have a good setup for portable off grid use I am trying to build the array so I can slide panels underneath the others or make a awning like pole and unistrut construction that I can put the panels level for transport and tild them back again when I get parked.
Now this is one hell of a Unistrut DIY helpful video my friend thank you so very much my cousin from across the pond
Glad it helped
Thanks for the comment 👍
Brilliant video - just what I needed as a complete novice. Thanks for posting it.
Glad it helped
Thanks for the comment 👍
Really good stuff to use. i have been using it for about 25 years. we use chop saw type machines with metal discs to cut it when doing quantity.
just in case it wasn't in your vid because i didn't see it all, you can also use it with threaded bar. we bolt the unistrutt to the wall and screw in the threaded bar. this enables us to fit ducting etc as well as mentioned above, cable trays. it's uses are endless.
good vid Chez.
Thank you so much, I was so confused as to how these worked and it was so helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the comment 👍
As a guy from Burnley ,unistrut is used very extensively over here in Canada and the USA by electricians ,heating and ventilation contractors and many other trades
Thanks for the comment 👍
This is versatile stuff. I have seen the channeling before bit not the inserts. Thanks, another useful video.
Great video. I was given some unistrut and wasn't sure how to use it. Thank you!
I'm glad the video helped
Thanks for the comment 👍
This looks like a great idea for making a platform bed in a camper van, where you want to make the bed platform higher to turn the unused space below into a garage to haul whatever you want...
Yes, Unistrut has many uses and is very versatile.
Thanks for the comment
Extremely useful...Thanks for sharing your knowledge with others as always. Warm greetings and my respect from Puerto Rico.
Good job explaining this. Just what I was looking for
Glad it was helpful! 👍
The factory install I just finished used at least 500m of this stuff, mostly us sparkies under all the hung cable trays.
Very informative, I have just started looking at it as the basis of a garden shed frame. It should be strong enough for that.
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I love unistrut, diy possibilities are unlimited. It's an adult version of LEGO👌
Absolutely, it's great stuff ;-)
Thanks for the comment
excellent introduction to strut channel!
Thank you kindly!
Excellent demo.
Thanks for the comment 👍
Brilliant stuff! Just made myself a nice solid gym rack for about £100 worth of materials!
Thanks for the comment 👍
Good stuff. When I fitted my combi in the loft, I used 2 lengths vertically, bolted to the roof timbers, to hang boiler on.
Thanks for the video! You've given me loads of ideas.
+Dinh Dover
You are welcome
Thanks for the comment
Fucking love unistrut, and brilliant demonstration well done!
Thanks for the comment
Interesting material Chez - Thanks for the info.
You are welcome.
Sorry for the late reply, I have just seen this when answering another comment.
Thanks for the comment
Washers really help. Good job!!
Thanks for the comment
And you can get trollys for them
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Back nut is sometimes called Zebs.
Yeah, we often call them Zebs/Zebedees on site ;-)
Great video, thanks!
It's expensive, 15 pound for a 3 meter length. Now it's around 40 dollars for a 10 foot (about the same length). Gotta love inflation...
Yeah, everything is going up massively in price, sadly many businesses will fail! Got to love the government money printing 😡
Thanks ,Rich I never saw this metal product, and its defferent use,s.I,am looking farward toyour future video,s real nice simple presentation sir.
Awesome, thank you.
You are welcome.
Thanks for the comment ;-)
Thank you. It was helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks!!! I need to build a work bench
Good luck with it ;-)
Thanks for the comment 👍
Seems like they would be better off, or at least the customer would be to buy in longer lengths and cut to suit. We see these around here a lot when someone has to mount a heater, cooler, fan, etc to the ceiling in a store or business.
really useful video
I'm glad the video helped
Thanks for the comment 👍
Its available in stainless too, but its expensive!
What would be the way best way to attach two pieces of unistrut if I wanted them to be at an angle other than 90?
Love the accent manchester? Also im gonna use it for a roof rack thanks
Darwen, not far from Manchester.
Thanks for the comment 👍
Thanks for the great demo! This was the exact information I was looking for after searching vids for over a week. Liked and subscribed!
Would you happen to know the best way to paint the unistrut under the rolled lip? I’m planning to use unistrut to make a roof rack for solar panels for my van.
Not sure about that 🤔
It will be difficult painting in there!
Perhaps powder coating would be a better option?
Cool video! ... I've seen these all over the place ... is there any website that really explains or goes into depth on how to use these, and maybe examples like your great video here of what other people have done with them?
On that linkage you made to join the two stuts ... how resistant to torque, shear or bending is that? That does not seem like it would be too strong?
This is like Meccano for real men :-)
LOL Best decription of it by far!
Great Video!!!
Thanks ;-)
Can you do an instructional video showing how to build a metal fence with square pipes and the correct way to solder them?
There are other parts too I would like to see how they are used
If you check out websites that sell Unistrut, there are normally diagrams showing applications 👍
Yet another brilliant video from 'the ultimatehandyman'. I can think of so many uses for this product, not sure (yet) where I can purchase it. I would like to make some shelves with them. Silly question I 'm sure, but how do you drill into a concrete post that has the wire inside it?
Thank you
Thanks Albert. I buy my unistrut from an ironmongers in the next town as they are also a steel stockist, you can even buy it on ebay although postage is expensive.
Drilling the reinforced concrete posts is not easy. If you can try and avoid the reinforcing bars. If you can't do that Bosch make some rebar cutter bits for SDS machines but they are expensive. You might also be able to use HSS drill bits once you hit the rebar, then swap back to the masonry bit.
***** Thanks for the quick reply, I confess, I had come to the same conclusion with regards to reinforcing bars, don't know how you can avoid them though; is it pot luck or can you anticipate that the bars are in the centre of the strut? Can't wait to experiment with the unistruts! Just wish I knew where to get some in or near Oldham.
Brilliant videos well done.
Albert Ross
Thanks Albert, It's just pot luck when drilling anything with rebar in it.
You should be able to get unistrut from electrical wholesalers, Newey & Eyre should stock it, they have a branch in Oldham.
Thanks for the comment
Great video! very informative. What is the best method to create a corner with a leg for a work bench?
Take a look here, at the 90 degree Tee brackets or the other T brackets, as some of these might work- directchannel.uk.com/brackets-clamps/angle-brackets
Thanks for the comment 👍
Unistrut channel installation for solar panel useful
Cool video
Thanks for the comment
Great vid! Do you think these are strong enough to use as posts to hang a wooden fence? Idea would be to use 2 of them (maybe the welded back to back ones) them instead of regular wooden posts (which rot) and cement them 6 or 8 ft apart. Then hang 1x6 or 1x4 PT lumber off them.
The back to back stuff will be strong enough, but eventually it will probably start to rust- unless it is painted as well.
The back to back Unistrut is really strong ;-)
Thanks for the comment
I want to build a solar panel array with unistrut for a portable system on a flatbed trailer. I built a custom wind turbine tower from a lift hoist. But my solar panels are 65 inches long 39 inches wide and 1 1/2 inch thick. I have 4 of them. I need to make 65 inch sliders so I can pull these out from under the top panels
Do you recomend howto use unistrut to make custom sliding drawer rails that's telescoping so I can pull these out and have support for them or even hinging single ones to unistrut and folding them out?
Unistrut is often used for electrical installations/solar panels etc. I guess it all depends on the weight of the panels. You can buy slide mechanisms for Unistrut, but I'm not sure if they would be suitable for your application.
Thanks for the comment
@@ultimatehandyman the 300 watt solar panels are 65 inches by 39 inches 1 1/2 inches thick and 42 pounds each I have 4 of them.
@@ultimatehandyman ok here is the unit . I want to replace the wood with unistrut and want to put the 4 large panels on the trailer and the 6 small ones would definitely benefit being able to be mounted underneath the larger panels and pull out like drawers. The prototype wind turbine tower or scorpion tower will be moved onto the tongue with half inch steel angle supports welded to the frame on trailer and tongue and 3/16 steel plates already drilled for 5/8 bolts for flange. I want 2 large panels behind electronics box long ways next to each other mounted in pairs on unistrut and a 1/1/4 OD aluminum pole.using a ubolt then legs mounded with telescoping poles and hinged flanges for support. So they can lower the front of each array down and vertical for the tower to lower in between the 2 arrays for transport the raise the tower and angle the front array and back array to the correct sun angle. That's the plan
ruclips.net/video/hK4rzGDsLAA/видео.html the wood is to bulky and heavy. I'm open to ideas send any my way thanks.
That looks like a great setup 👍
I'm sure the Unistrut will be fine for that 👍
@@ultimatehandyman cool I am totally new to using unistrut so I'm not familiar with the parts needed what would you recommend using for strength? And for sliding applications? Do u think it would be more cost effective to use heavy duty 22 inch 100 pound drawer slides side mount or under mounts? And a pipe clamp or ubolt to attach unistrut to any pipe conduit?
Good shit
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Do you get these curved shape? If they do, you know the smallest depth unistrut with rollers?
Not that I know of. I have only ever seen it in straight lengths.
Thanks for the comment 👍
Unistrut has good products. Have you seen Hilti products?
Yes, Hilti make some really good products, but they are often too expensive for DIY'ers
Thanks for the comment 👍
i been looking for something like this for ages. whats it like to cut?
cuts easy with a portable band saw
Do they make a 90 degree corner piece that is strong enough to hold square? If i wanna make a large frame out of it?
Something like this should work- fave.co/2pXbAQl
Awesome stuff! Thank you! I was planning on building a frame for a forced air floating boat lift to keep my Pontoon up out of the water. Would you say this is strong enough to use? The original option was to weld a box tube frame.. but this seem way easier!
what are be rough values of tensile force that can break such a joint ?
No idea, sorry.
You might be able to find some data on this website- www.unistrut.co.uk/
thank u
You are welcome.
Thanks for the comment ;-)
Nice
Thanks 👍
Great video. Cool accent !
Thanks for the comment ;-)
Hi The square washers, what is their purpose?
+AISLE3B They enable you to tighten things up against the unistrut.Sometimes you need the square washers, other times you don't. It depends what you are bolting to it.Thanks for the comment ;-)
So I guess any washer would work for that purpose - is there any reason for it being square?
+AISLE3B They are square so that they fit flush with the channel without sticking out. They are also pretty thick- about 5mm.
Square washers are sometimes called square plates, for instance, you would put a short length of threaded stud through the washer and into a the large square shaped nut with a spring as shown in the video, this nut is called a zebedee, then put a normal nut on the other side of the square washer and tighten it up against the unistrut, then for instance, put a pipe clip on the exposed piece of threaded stud, which would hold copper or iron pipes or anything else that needed support. The washer is square, so that it sits on the unistrut correctly.
Why we use this thing
It is used widely in industrial buildings for electrical installations.
Thanks for the comment 👍
So if used on ceiling, all the weight is hanging off the edges of the back nut?
Yes, but they are strong.
Interesting. Didn't think they'd be strong enough. Good to know, thanks.
The M10 channel nuts are quite substantial, I'm not sure how much weight you could hang from them- I guess you would have to check with Unistrut to be on the safe side.
Thanks for the comments
sort of like industrial strength meccano
ebay again then :)
Herculean meccano
North Manchester accent?
+hfdpayner
Not a million miles away.
Darwen,Lancashire ;-)
Wuifste el guantes para trabajar
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